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MyRocks: How Facebook Cut MySQL Storage Nearly in Half
Why Facebook replaced InnoDB with MyRocks, an LSM-tree storage engine built on RocksDB, to shrink storage footprint across its huge MySQL fleet.
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The Origin of React: UI as a Function of State
How Facebook's Ads team, wrestling with cascading manual DOM updates, built React around declarative rendering and a virtual DOM diff.
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Why REST Stopped Working for Facebook's Mobile Apps
How Facebook's 2012 mobile rewrite exposed REST's limits and led to GraphQL, a query language built around what the client actually needs.
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Haystack: Why Facebook Threw Out Filesystems for Photo Storage
How Facebook's Haystack replaced a filesystem-per-photo approach with a purpose-built object store to eliminate the metadata bottleneck of billions of images.
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TAO: Facebook's Graph-Aware Cache for Billions of Reads
Why generic memcache stopped fitting Facebook's social graph, and how TAO's objects-and-associations model became the read path for billions of requests.
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Scaling Memcached: How Facebook Made Look-Aside Caching Work at Web Scale
How Facebook turned a simple key-value cache into a cluster of thousands of memcached servers without drowning in stale reads and thundering herds.
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